Horomayr Monastery

Horomayr monastery was an important religious center of the medieval Armenia that has been referred to since the 7thcentury. The monastery has two complexes of monuments that consist of St.Nshan (1187), Tsiranavor-Tsaghkevank (4-5thcentury) and single nave churches, belfry (1290), small chapel built in 1201, zhamatun (a house adjacent to the church that belongs to the latter, 1301), ruins of St.Arakyal chapel (1216), as well as monastery's cemetery.
After St.Hovhan Imastaser Odzneci Catholicos met with Omar amira (similar to prince) Arab army helped Armenia to get rid of of the Byzantine invaders. Following that Greek patriarch announced that he would catch Hovhan Odzneci and would throw him into boiling water. However Odzneci himself called the patriarch, threw a cross into boiling water and said that whoever could get the cross out of the water, his faith would be the right one. Patriarch burned his hand and Odzneci took out the cross without any harm. Vasid from the patriarch's suite and some other Greek members of the group change their faith and stayed in Armenia. They built a church inside the caves and lay there a relic of Christ's cross and, later on, Vasid's remains. That gave its name to St.Nshan of Horomayr monastery since 'horom'used to mean 'Greek'or 'Byzantine'.
The cave where Vasid built the monastery was a settlement in the 4th-1stmillennia B.C. In the 1st-8thcenturies monks used to live in those caves which was the reason why this site was chosen when building the monastery.

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